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Date: 15 October 2006 01:51:16
So on Friday night the parents were about to go to bed and looked out their bedroom window. They saw a car parked across our street. Diagonally. Blocking all traffic. The father went out to have a look and it was locked, no signs of anyone around, couldn't hear any teenage parties going on anywhere. Very odd.
Now this was a problem because although our street is not particularly busy, especially at 11pm, there are a few hoons who enjoy driving up and down at great speeds. And visibility is not great due to our house being in a dip and the street lights not being fantastic and overhanging bushes obscuring vision. And I am not confident treating with major trauma yet!
So the father went out with a torch to warn people not to hit the car. The mother called the police. Who said "ah if it's abandoned then it needs to be there for at least x amount of time". She explained that it was blocking the whole street. They eventually conceded that maybe it was a problem. They turned up about half an hour later (impressive for a Friday night non-emergency - once my boss hit the panic button at work by mistake and they turned up 3 hours later!) and called the car owners from the number plates. Turned out that their daughter was driving the car. And was across the road from us visiting friends. Turned out that she'd parked at the top of the hill and not utilised her parking brake very well. She was extremely lucky that the car stopped where it did because there is a fence running down the middle of our street. And cars!!
Although I bet she did get a bollocking from the parents who were called by the police at 11pm asking if they were the owners of a car with rego XYZ 123 and who was driving it tonight...